Sentence examples for a hyphen in from inspiring English sources
They thought about putting a hyphen in but didn't.
(The airport, known as Sea-Tac, uses a hyphen in its name; the city does not).
Our preferred dictionary (Webster's New World College) has a hyphen in "whistle-blower".
No need for a hyphen in a compound modifier with an adverb ending in "ly".
"Her name is Marie Steinmann" — he drew a hyphen in the air — "Tykwer.
The papers were so distinct that placing a hyphen in the combined name would have been presumptuous.
An application could be held because of an entry error or a dropped hyphen in a last name, for example.
A missing hyphen in a review of Chekhov's Three Sisters led us to refer to "the servant abusing Natasha", rather than "the servant-abusing Natasha".
What's a dissed hyphen in a supper-club act that initially looks as if it's going to be a sweet young thing's homage to love and then slowly and delightfully goes in many other scintillating directions?
(Or, in a close cousin of a hyphen, as in Chindia).
As its first criterion for classifying syllables, the Qieyun takes the tones, of which it has four: ping, shang (here transcribed with a colon, as in pa:), qu (here transcribed with a hyphen, as in pa-), and ru, or even, rising, falling, and entering ("checked") tones.
